Close Reading
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Close Reading

In 1930, Viktor Shklovsky’s "Monument to a Scientific Error" was published in the newspaper Literaturnaja gazeta. We do not know which version was published, perhaps the third? Nor do we know when the microfilm was made nor the apparatus built with which to view it.

The second version of Shklovsky’s text, which is stored in the Russian State Literature Archive, was published in 2000 by Aleksandr Galuzhkin in the 44th issue of the journal Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (magazines.russ.ru). He has also supplied the text with an historico-philological commentary (magazines.russ.ru).

A German translation of Shklovsky’s text was published in "Literaturtheorie und Literaturkritik in der frühsowjetischen Diskussion". In 1993 Anton Hiersche and Edward Kowalski edited this for the publishers Peter Lang-Verlag.

The first English factura of Shklovsky’s text was David Bordwell's neoformalist version (www.davidbordwell.net).

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A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates
presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster)
June 4.-5th 2015
Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles
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In our second workshop we would like to differentiate between formalist theory on the one hand and the artists of the Russian avant-garde on the other. To this end we chose to focus on the fate of formalist theory during the Stalinist 1930s when it became nearly impossible to draw the line between Formalism and avant-garde art
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